Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

edited and translated by me.

You have to prove it, at least to yourself.

and you sit there looking for errors in baseline perception.

Very impressive. No identity, hence identity crisis.

I guess you think you're a man now, huh?

(Jimmy chuckles)

I cannot offer you a position as a reporter.

I don't want to have the same name.

-I thought you were... -You-you want one?

SIDNEY' Do you like scones, JR?

...falling into place.

I'll see you on the flip side.

We can handle that. We can handle anything.

I don't think I told you over the phone

-This kid's a prodigy. -Gonna have to cut cards

We don't want ya.

You want to be a disc jockey when you grow up?

(dog barking in distance)

It's a house bike. I took that bike out of the dump

-Good luck. -(sighs)

Some people build houses. We build dwellings.

-(radio clatters) -(broadcast cuts out)

It's just not romantic or sexual.

or in Holland or whatever, things are different,

You sure there's gas in it?

It's Christmas in Connecticut, with a Volvo.

Thinking things are more than what they are.

I said you can ride the fucking bike.

Publishing is going more towards memoir.

No. Men who want things are.

(indistinct chatter)

That's a relief.

-She did. -There you go, numb nuts.

You want to study together tomorrow?

Come on, Chaz, back 'em up on me.

You can have any name you want.

I always love to see you on this train.

See this? This little compartment in your wallet, right?

Too late, Chief. Too late.

Well, they didn't offer me that position.

-Yes, about you. -(chuckles)

Nothing in my mom's life came easy.

who's nothing more to you than a voice on the radio.

-If you're tricking me, I'll kill you. -Read it.

-(phones ringing) -(heavy, indistinct chatter)

Was Yale out of your league?

and you'll be registered to win $500.

JR is a writer.

I mean, I just feel like Sidney's so up here

Poor old guy's probably climbing the walls.

Let's go back and get graduated.

All right, give me a hand.

If you have a father complex, it's kind of a red flag.

and write me a ten-page paper.

Minion. Eclectic.

Unless you can take me.

But you got to have a drink-- your drink.

That's how most jobs work.

And one of the things she always loved to do was ride around

(typewriter keys clacking)

I hadn't been to New York City to see his face on billboards and buses.

Maybe you forgot.

I'm not the maid.

I didn't need Sidney.

-(laughing): You're a copyboy? -I-I get sandwiches. I...

The thing is, that day, I felt like I had.

Why does Grandpa say we should all clear out?

Just not romantic or sexual.

Orders a well Scotch neat.

That movie made a man out of me.

-Uh, somewhere south. -Mm.

and said he put a contract on my mother's life.

and spend all their money and throw back

I just don't want a relationship.

You understand?

I'm-I'm not here. Whoever...

Nah, it's "Junior."

What, are you fucking stupid? You want to die?

so everybody gets to know each other better.

And I will pick you up at your grandfather's at30.

Why'd you marry him?

You take care of your mother.

Well, I see y'all started the party without me.

-What? It's okay. I don't have lipstick. -I mean...

when the committee meets to consider a trainee,

And over all these years,

Anyway, long story short, I picked Venice.

(sighs) The Family Gazette.

The first half of the Iliad.

It's not for you to help me pitch.